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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1964
Page
4
Washington AP reports the Army now assigns non volunteer officers to dangerous counter guerrilla Special Forces roles while enlisted men remain volunteers. The policy aims to broaden officer training and may affect promotion prospects, with Special Forces totals rising from about 1 800 volunteers to near 7 000 overall.
Brownsville hopes to sell a B 25 bomber replica stored at the city airport for two years. The Army air force craft saw limited bombing missions and was left by Tampico rancher Charlie Miller who never returned for it. The city began charging one dollar daily for storage.
A Flying Tiger four engine constellation crashed in heavy fog near a California jail at 12 30 am PST killing all three crew members. The crash near a Coast Guard station ignited a fire in a guard building which was extinguished with no injuries to Coast Guard personnel.
The Defense Department says most of about 22 000 American forces in South Vietnam are there by order, not as volunteers. It notes volunteers are used when needed and qualified, but most personnel are assigned as individuals or as deployed units, with tours of 12 to 24 months and combat pay applying to both volunteers and nonvolunteers.
AP learns that Air Force recommendations on merging the Air Reserve and the Air National Guard are due January 25, six days before General LeMay retires as chief of staff. High-level sentiment favors folding the Reserve into the Guard, though some urge preserving the Guard as the sole airborne force.
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